Example sentences of "of the court of session " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any rule directly or indirectly restricting solicitors ' freedom to undertake all the actions necessary for the preparation and presentation of cases will need the approval of both the Secretary of State and the Lord President of the Court of Session . |
| 2 | William Dunlop appealed to the Inner House of the Court of Session which reversed the decision in his favour . |
| 3 | The Crown applied to the Outer House of the Court of Session to quash the ruling , contending that the evidence it had tried to present had to be deemed relevant , even if not determinative or of very great weight . |
| 4 | In a recent case , the Second Division of the Inner House of the Court of Session has decided , in an appeal on the basis of law equally applicable in England and Wales , that a minority shareholder is entitled to an order to wind up the company on the just and equitable ground under s 122(1) ( g ) of the Insolvency Act 1986 , even though he is not entitled to a share purchase order because of unfair prejudice in terms of s 459 , CA 1985 ( see Jesner v Jarrad Properties Ltd , The Times , 26 October 1992 ) . |
| 5 | When political considerations took primacy over whether qualifications it is not surprising that some of the appointments were given to candidates ill-suited to the duties they were called upon to perform , such as the Lanarkshire freeholder appointed macer of the Court of Session who , according to James Boswell , ‘ had a constant hoarseness , so that he could scarcely be heard when he called the causes and the lawyers , and was indeed as unfit for a crier of court as a man could be . |
| 6 | In accordance with the Sheriff Courts ( Scotland ) Act 1971 , the Secretary of State for Scotland asked two senior Scottish judges ( the Lord President of the Court of Session and the Lord Justice Clerk ) to investigate and they reported their finding of misbehaviour which , as for Circuit judges and Recorders in England and Wales , was a ground for dismissal . |
| 7 | , George Hay ( 1821–1875 ) , Episcopalian priest , scholar , and printer , was born 4 August 1821 in Edinburgh , the ninth child in a family of four sons and six daughters of John Hay Forbes ( later Lord Medwyn , q.v. ) , judge of the Court of Session , and his wife Louisa , daughter of Sir Alexander Cumming Gordon of Altyre . |
| 8 | , James Latham Mcdiarmid , Lord Clyde ( 1898–1975 ) , lord justice-general of Scotland and lord president of the Court of Session , was born 30 October 1898 at 17 Heriot Row , Edinburgh , the elder son ( there were no daughters ) of James Avon Clyde [ q.v. ] , later lord justice-general of Scotland , and his wife Anna Margaret McDiarmid , daughter of Professor Peter Wallwork Latham of Cambridge [ q.v . ] . |
| 9 | Last autumn , lord president of the Court of Session , suddenly announced he was forming a working party under to examine how to improve the handling of commercial cases and to make their hearing speedier and more convenient to litigants . |
| 10 | Lord Emslie , Lord President of the Court of Session , has appointed Sheriff Principal F. W. F. O'Brien , QC , Sheriff Principal of North Strathclyde , as the new Chairman of the Sheriff Court Rules Council . |
| 11 | As a fellow Chairman of these Tribunals I find myself in general agreement with him , although is until some way is found to eliminate obviously frivolous appeals from the Local Appeal Tribunal 's decisions I doubt the practicality of having appeals to a Tribunal of Commissioners and blanch at the thought of their Lordships of the Court of Session 's comments if asked to deal with some of the material placed before a single Commissioner at present . |
| 12 | It may also be that the agent would be asked to advise on the cost , and , as with civil legislation , costs in parliamentary matters can in appropriate cases be taxed under the House of Commons Costs Taxation Act , 1847 , and the 1849 Act on similar lines for the House of Lords , the only difference in Scotland being that taxation is done by the Auditor of the Court of Session . |
| 13 | 19 Lord The Lord Ordinary having considered the Petition and proceedings , no Answers having been lodged , Nominates and Appoints to be curator bonis to designed in the Petition with the usual powers and decerns ; authorises the said after finding caution to enter on the duties of his office upon a certified copy of this interlocutor with a schedule of the curatory estate annexed thereto ; and that upon condition that before issue of a certified copy interlocutor of his appointment he shall lodge in the hands of the Accountant of Court a bond binding himself to lodge Accounts annually with the Accountant of Court and otherwise to conduct the affairs of the curatory estate in all respects in conformity with the laws and practice of Scotland ; to appear before the Lords of Council and Session in Scotland to answer for his conduct as curator aforesaid or in connection with any matter arising out of said curatory ; to submit himself to and prorogate the jurisdiction of the Court of Session for said purposes and to assign an address in Scotland where he may be cited , and decerns ( * Finds the expenses of this application and procedure following thereon to form a proper charge upon the curatory estate , and remits the account thereof , when lodged , to the Auditor of Court for taxation ) . |
| 14 | Following a report made to the President of the Court of Session , television is being introduced in a controlled way in the higher courts in Scotland . |
| 15 | The House of Lords overturned the decision of Lord Mayfield and the subsequent decision of the Second Division of the Inner House of the Court of Session ( ( 1989 ) SLT 182 ) to the effect that the clause constituted an invalid non-possessory security interest . |
| 16 | The First Division of the Court of Session so held in refusing a reclaiming motion by property valuers against the Lord Ordinary 's decision that a mortgage application form containing a disclaimer in respect of their liability to Derek and Margaret Melrose constituted a contract . |
| 17 | Now Mr Vafa 's only legal recourse to set the record straight is to take his case to the Nobile Officium of the Court of Session . |